family farming
Kin-operated crop cultivation
Family farming is agricultural production managed and operated by a family, typically across generations, where family members provide most of the labor and make the major decisions.
The term often carries connotations of small-scale, sustainable practices in contrast to corporate or industrial agriculture: Family farming has declined as agribusiness consolidates land ownership.
A family farm is the operation itself.
- livestock rearingBreeding animals for food
- irrigationArtificial water supply for agriculture
- crop rotationAlternating field plantings yearly
- growing seasonTime crops can mature
- back fortyRemote farm acreage
seed saving · folk traditions · heirloom crops · cash crop · inheritance · homestead · multigenerational · harvest · pest control · pasture · dirt road · barn · agricultural subsidies · fields · biodiversity · oral history · Sunday dinner · agrarian
- farming typesranching, livestock raising, cattle ranching, crop rotation, aquaculture
- farmingfarm, farms, farmer, farmers, crop
- farm laborfarmhands, farm labor, field hand, field hands, farm hand
family farmingindustrial agriculture
Large-scale mechanized farming
agribusiness · factory farming · corporate farming · plantation agriculture · commercial farming
family farmingfactory farming
Intensive livestock production system